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okay here let's just test out your internet browser and oh oh my eyes it

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burns oh the toolbars this is probably a

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pretty familiar experience if you have ever worked in a computer repair shop or

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helped a less tech-savvy member of your family fix an issue with their computer

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browser toolbars pre-installed programs Auto starting apps and tools that change

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your default search engine no I don't want to use ask gum.com are referred to

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as crapware and blow Weare many people use these terms interchangeably but I

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think there's actually a pretty important distinction between them

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crapware is used to describe software that has no sensible use like those

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awful toolbars that take up half the browser with sponsored links to sites

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you would never want to visit and leave you with no space to actually view the

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web content that you came to see whereas bloatware is software that can be

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legitimately useful but that was installed without your approval usually

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by the manufacturer of your computer and that you probably wouldn't have

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installed if given the choice so how do you get bloatware and crapware well as

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mentioned before a lot of bloatware comes pre-installed on your PC and

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actually the same goes even for mobile devices the Samsung Galaxy S4 was

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particularly notorious for shipping with excessive bloatware with about 7 gigs of

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the capacity of the 16 gig model taken up by pre-installed apps and software

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that you couldn't remove without a pretty solid understanding of how

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Android Works yikes not all blare is

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pre-installed on Hardware though sometimes you'll find it hidden in the

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recommended or Express installation options for free software

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subscription-based antivirus Solutions are notorious for this hiding in

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countless installers just waiting to eat up your CPU and RAM resources and in

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this regard crapware is no different if I had a penny for every time I had to

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uncheck install ask toolbar when trying

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to install a new program on my PC I would already have my kids college

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education paid for now in a world where

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PC manufacturers often spend countless hours and funds designing and developing

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their latest and greatest new laptop or whatever why on Earth would they include

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pre-loaded programs that seem to do nothing but slow your PC down sometimes

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the answer is pretty innocent and it's just a matter of they wanted to put on

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this like feature that it turns out people didn't really care about that

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much it wasn't very well-coded and it used up resources you just pull it off

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other times the answer's a little more Sinister cash cheddar green backs Yen

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Dong Dong anyway um back on topic

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companies like oh let's just use Norton as an example will pay PC manufacturers

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to preload their software onto their computers because once it's there many

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people don't know how to get rid of it or even know that they should want to

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well hold on lonus the apps pre-installed on my PC were free I mean

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how is there a benefit to anyone to have it installed there here's how let's take

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hypothetical dude Jeff who brings his new pc home and it's pleased to discover

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it is protected by Norton Antivirus an

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antivirus program that was included with his purchase how nice only a year from

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now that software is going to be all like yo Jeff man I'm expired man your PC

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is like unprotected unless you purchase another year of the service act now

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before the hacker worm Trojan monster virus steals all your personal

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information man because Norton was

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pre-installed on that PC Jeff never realized that he could shop around and

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find free Alternatives that work just as well or better so now they get to rake

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in $54.99 a year for the lifetime of that computer pretty smart well okay

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lonus now that I know about bloatware and crapware how do I get rid of it and

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what can I do to make sure I don't get any more lucky for us life hacker has

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